Bean breeder Mohsen Yoosefzadeh Najafabadi of the University of Guelph is donating culled beans to the Guelph Food Bank and to the United Way.
He plants about 100,009 beans per year and keeps only a few of the best for continued breeding.
His team grows many different kinds of beans, including navy, cranberry, black, kidney, pinto and adzuki beans.
Guelph Food Bank CEO Carolyn McLeod-McCarthy said the donation comes at a time where more people are needing their services.
"We've gone up over 37 per cent since January in the number of people that need to come through to get food, mostly due to the cost of living and the cost of groceries," McLeod-McCarthy told CBC News.
"When it comes to proteins we're also looking for nutritional proteins and culturally appropriate foods, so this works out really well."
